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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 06 > A little extra juice for electric cars

A little extra juice for electric cars

Obama unveils $2.4B plan to help get U.S.-made electric vehicles onto roads

By Renee Schoof / The Bulletin
August 6, 2009

WASHINGTON " Declaring that electric cars could help put Americans to work and reduce dependence on oil, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the federal government would spend $2.4 billion in stimulus money to build batteries and get the first batch of thousands of U.S.-made electric....

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